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REPORTS '*. S-MROUOH
T(> BM«» CENSOR8H.- *>.
. ■„. to the rigid censorship that
J* enforced, the reports receiv-the
European war are both
* ITand unsatisfactory. The cable
Germany
news passes through the
Knglish and is censor-
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line10
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,... London.
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|t'jpp,.;ir> ilia' tlie Hshting around
, last week resulted in what
« of usin ,his country would cal1
"jog ''" Tlie Germans took
but the Belgians held their ;|UVll.
fortifications surrounding the place.
taken n
thai ''"'
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_h0 German army is reported to
advancing into the heart of Bel-
■ , The forces which have been
averting U«8« have moved to the
',.,, and a new army corps has
ir place. Brussels reports
French and British allied
,. concentrated at various
■Dortani points in Belgium and are
irepared i" check the German ad-rance.
K-om Berlin. German successes are
announced at Muelhausen and La-
Mrde, with the taking of many
French prisoners and the clearing of
German territory of the French.
fighting continues around Tirie-most
and other Belgian towns and
the struggle for the possession of the
1 \fft forts has recommenced.
The British war office information
bureau fays most of the 26 German
army corps have been located and
Hat the mass of the German troops
is concentrated between Liege and
Livmbure.
?:iat no important engagement has
occared between the French and Ger-mans
is indicated by an official an-nouncement
issued- by the French
war department that up to yesterday
afternoon there had been no en-counters
between the respective
forces except those of outposts.
i.ater. however, Paris reported
tin; the bombardment by the Ger-mans
of the important town of Pont-
A-Mousson in the Department of
Jletirthe El Moselle, had commenced. I
This town is -0 miles from Nancyf
a:.: 16 miles south or southwest of
Metz. It was the birthplace of Mar-
?u. ite of Anjou. wife of Henry VI
o: England.
M. important development in the
s:- lation is the preparations the Aus-trian
ambassador is making for his
immediate departure from London.
A London dispatch says war be-twe-
»o Great Britain and Austria will
be Ifdared.
troops along the entire front are in
contact with the Germans. At Man-giennes,
northeast of Verdun, the
Germans attacked the French Mon-day
night. The French, reinforced
" " reserves, then took the offensive
^-ulsed the Germans with con-siQv
a losses. A German battery
was destroyed by the French artil-lery
fire, and another was captured
with three Gatllng guns and ammu-nition.
A regiment of German cavalry
suffered seriously. Near Moncel a
German battalion with artillery was
repulsed. The German losses are said
to. have been heavy.
The village of Lagarde, in German
territory, was taken by the French
withdrawn for use in the war. This
would leave the Italians in complete
control.
If Italy should seise Albania, she
would immediately be drawn into
the European war. The little coun-try
has long been coveted by Servia
and Montenegro. It was established
as a separate entity under the rule
of Prince William of Wied following
the Balkan war.
North Sea Mined.
Mining the North sea as part of
the plan of the European war not
only may close most of the northern
European ports to navigation, but
the gold-laden cruiser Tennessee,
the cruiser North Carolina and neu-tral
passenger vessels bearing Amer-icans
from Europe will be confront-ed
with hew dangers.
The American government has
been advised formally by the British
embassy that, inasmuch as Germany
had been scattering mines indiscrim-inately.
Great Britain no longer
could refrain from planting mines
near her own ports.
Italy May be Drawn Into War.
Italy's entry into the general Eu-ropean
war is momentarily expected.
Special dispatches from Durazzo say
that Italy is casting covetous eyes on
Albania, and her seizure of that new-country
is expected.
The condition in the Albanian cap-ital
is desperate. Native troops are
unpaid and there is no money in the
treasury. Practically the only troops
in Duraxzo are the international de-tachments
from Italy and France
sent there when Albania was pro-claimed
an independent principality
to enforce order. It is expected that
the French troops will shortly be
at the point of the bayonet.
German forces appeared at Long-wy
and demanded the surrender of
the town, which was refused.
Fiance Ends Gelation- With Austria.
Diplomatic relations between
Prance and Austria have been brok-f..
and the ambassadors of the two
countries have left the capitals. The
i- • .:■!. fun-inn office Monday night
i--'.-.'i the following notice announc-
''■■■ the breaking of diplomatic rela-lii
is:
Contrary to assurances given by
Austria to the French minister of
''■•isa. affairs that no Austrian
|is were taking part in the
France-German war. the French
- •rnnuM has ascertained beyond
anj possible doubt that certain Aus-tria
t-oops are present in Germany,
Id' the Austrian frontier. These
»s which have set free certain
"""man troops destined to be em-
• : "d ii: fighting the French, ought
" '■ insldered as acting against
'••■■ In these circumstances the
'■I ambassador was ordered to
Vienna.
v.
Rigid Censorship Maintained.
Advices from London state that a
rigid censorship is being imposed on
all news matter from Brussels.
There is absolutely no direct com-munication
with Germany or Austria
by any routing. A few censored dis-patches
are coming through via Lon-don,
and these are reported censor-ed
for transmission out of England.
Inability to secure wireless commun-ication
with Germany since the cut-ting
of the cable at the outbreak of
the war and increasing vigor of the
London censorship still further ob-scures
what has actually transpired
within the military zone.
On account of the rigid censorship
extending like a network over the
countries involved in the great Eu-ropean
conflict, scarcely any news
has been allowed to filter through as
to what has actually transpired in
the military zone since the last bat-tle
reported to have taken place in
the vicinity of Liege.
FOLLY OF BUYING AUTO-MOBILES
ON SAVINGS.
"We bought two more automobiles
today," remarked an officer of one
of the Greensboro banks in conversa-tion
with a Patriot reporter yester-day.
"Didn't know you had gone into
the automobile business," responded
the newspaper man.
"We haven't gone into the busi-ness
on our own accord," replied the
banker, "but some of our customers
are drawing us into it in an indirect
way. In other words, there are peo-ple
in this town who are withdraw-ing
their savings from the bank to
invest in automobiles—swapping
money that is earning them more
money for a machine of pleasure, a
luxury, that will soon wear out or
be out of date. This investment not
only pays no interest, but in some
instances it results in putting a stop
to the systematic saving of money on
the part of the man who has bought
an automobile.
"Take the case of a man who has
been 'salting down' $15, $20 or $25
or more a month. When he accumu-lates
the purchase price of an auto-mobile,
he withdraws the money and
buys a 'joy wagon.' and in many
cases that is the last we know of htm
as a depositor. He will probably
make his next appearance at the
bank in the capacity of a borrower.
If he be a man on salary or a fixed
Income, the chances are that all the
money he -has been in the habit of
putting in the bank every month, to
draw Interest and multiply, will i be
consumed in keeping up his automo-bile.
"Of course it's all right (or a man
to own an automobile, provided he
can afford it, but it is all wrong with
the poor man with a family to sup-port
to invest In this expensive lux-ury
when it probably will mean de-privation
in the future. Probably he
has children coming on tp be edu-cated
or perhaps he has not paid for
a home—and the purchase of the au-tomobile
may mean that he will con-tinue
to live in a rented or mort-gaged
house and that his children
may go to work instead of going to
college."
The banker' was upaakinr frrrm an
Intimate knowledge of facts and his
observations are worthy of serious
thought on the part of many people
in this community. There can be no
dispute of the proposition that it is
far better to have $1,000 in the bank
drawing interest than to be the pos-sessor
of a luxury that consumes all
one's surplus earnings—and this is
what an automobile will do for the
average poor man.
LOCAL W1SIM BRIEF FORM
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO THE
READKBS OF THE PATRIOT
FAR AND NEAR.
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Austrian ambassador at
lining informed of France's
a-ked for his passports."
'"•rinjui. shot as Spies in Belgium.
'•■ report from Brussels says that
'"> has been covered by a network
1 ernian spies. Six hundred or
n.n,-, ;.lave Deen arrested and 100
"•rs shot in one day.
Some of the Germans captured
■'"'• uniforms of gendarmes, civil
'"*'d< soldiers and officers of the
•k'nian army.
Many were armed with bombs and
j*v„lvers and rode in automobiles
Jfcariou false numbers. They also
'■*•• m their possession telegrams and
""rs with the counterfeit signa-
,ur" of the Belgian minister 6f war. '
•! 'st before and after the fighting
fan private signs were discovered
on bridges, military works and aque-
' u,ts indicating that these structures
'd be blown up.
' ontact Along Entire Front.
'aria, Aug. 12.—The French
Oranges Direct-From California.
Through the courtesy of Mr. V. A.
Reynolds, of Whlttler, Cal., The Pa-triot
this week received some of the
most luscious oranges that grow in
sunny Southern California. Mr. Rey-nolds
shipped a crate of the cele-brated
"Sunklst" oranges from his
grove to his brother-in-law, Dr. A. T.
Mlllis, of Gullford College, and sug-gested
that a few of them be passed
on to The Patriot. Dr. Millie made
the proper division of the fruit and
was kind enough to deliver The Pa-triot's
share at the office. Dr. Mlllis
tells us that Mr. Reynolds has a fine
crop of oranges this year and is re-ceiving
a good price for the fruit.
The Patriot returns thanks to it* Cal-ifornia
friend and subscriber for the
kindly remembrance, and having
tasted of the fruit, is not surprised
that Mr. Reynolds' oranges command
the top-notch price.
Governor Cralg has returned to
Raleigh from a vacation trip of two
weeks.
DIVISION'S OF FEDERAL
COURT IN THIS DISTRICT.
Judge James E. Boyd this week
Issued the following order designat-ing
the several counties that shall
comprise the various divisions of the
United States District court in the
western district of North Carolina:
"To the District Court of the United
States for the Western District of
North Carolina:
"It appearing to the satisfaction
of the court that owing to changes
which have become necessary since
the establishment of this dictict, that
there should be a perfect record
made and entered of the counties
composing the several divisions:
"It is now ordered that the divis-ions
in this district be constituted as
follows:
"The Asheville division shall be
composed of the counties of Bun-combe,
Clay, Cherokee, Graham,
Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Ma-con,
Madison, Swain. Transylvania,
Yancey.
"The Charlotte division shall be
composed of the counties of Anson,
Cabarrus, Cleveland, Gaston, Lin-coln,
Mecklenburg, Polk, Rutherford
and Union.
"The Greensboro division shall be
composed of, the counties of Ala-mance,
Caswell, Forsyth, Gullford,
Montgomery, Orange, Randolph,
Rockingham, Stokes, Surry and Tad-kin.
"The Statesville-Salisbury division
shall be composed of the counties of
Alexander, Avery, Burke, Caldwell,
Catawba, Davie, Davidson, (whlcp, is
hereby transferred from the Greens-boro
division to the Statesville-Salis-bury
division, Iredell, McDowell,
Mitchell, Rowan and Stanley.
"The Wllkesboro division shall be
composed of the counties of Alle-ghany,
Ashe, Watauga and Wllkes."
The German foreign office has no-tified
Ambassador Gerard that all
German ports have been mined.
Mr. O. A. Starbuck, of Richmond,
Va., is in the city. «
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Medearls.are
on a visit to Moore's Springs.
Mrs. Z. Y- Taylor, of Charlotte, is
In the city on a visit to relatives.
Mr. T. B. Ogburn has returned
from a business trip to Chatham, Va.
Rev. R.D. Sherrlll and family
have returned from a visit to rela-tives
in Iredell county.
Mrs. J. If. Longest and children
are spending some time at Mt. Airy
White Sulphur Springs.
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Ridenhour
and children have gone on a vaca-tion
trip to Atlantic City.
Mrs. R. M. Rees and children and
Miss Hattle Causey have gone to At-
Miss Clara Gant, daughter of
Clerk of the Court M. W. Garft; is
visiting friends in Madison.
Iantic City for a few weeks.
Mr. Charles H. McKnight and fam-ily
left yesterday on a trip to Ocean
View and other Virginia resorts. 'i
Mr. John W. Crews, an industrious
and prosperous young farmer of
Summerfletd, was in the city yester-day.
Mr. O. W. Hines, of McLeansville.
Is In Washington attending a con-vention
of rural free delivery mall
carriers.
Mr. J. M. Millikan has sold his
handsome suburban residence in
Glenwood to Mr. W. L. Klvett, of
High Point.
Mr. J. B. Gill, deputy clerk of the
United States District court at States-ville,
was In Greensboro this week on
official business.
Col. W. P. Wood, state auditor,
was In Greensboro Tuesday on his re-turn
to Raleigh from a visit to his
home in Asheboro.
The city building Inspector reports
that nearly 100 new residences are
in course of construction in Greens-boro
at the present time.
Mrs. Josie Bittrlch. of Wilming-ton,
is visiting her her sister, Mrs.
M. L. Minor, on Greensboro Route
4, and other relatives and friends.
Mr. t). W. Patterson has taken a
position with the Patterson Company
as city salesman, succeeding Mr. W.
H. Boyles, who died suddenly last
week.
Mrs. B. L. Beall is recovering very
satisfactorily from the effects of an
operation for appendicitis she un-derwent
at St. Leo's hospital a few-days
ago.
Mr. George T. Lane was In Hills-boro
Tuesday and yesterday attend-ing
the annual session of the North
Carolina Farmers' Alliance, of which
he is an officer.
A revival meeting is in progress
at the Spring Garden Street Friends
church. Three services are held
dally—at 10 o'clock A. M., 2.30 P.
M. and 8 P. M.
Mr. R. L. Vernon, of Charlotte,
for many years a resident of Greens-boro
and a well known former offi-cial
of the Southern Railway, was in
the city Tuesday on a business trip.
Rev. Dr. G. T. Rowe, presiding
elder of the Greensboro district, who
has been ill at his home on Summit
avenue for a month or more, con-tinues
to improve and hopes to be
out soon.
The annual camp-meeting of the
Seventh Day Adventists will open In
this city today and continue through
Sunday, August 23. The meeting
will be held under a tent at the cor-ner
of North Elm street and Besse-mer
avenue.
The annual session of the North
Carolina State Council of the Jr. O.
U. A. M. will convene in Durham
next Tuesday. Gullford has the dis-tinction
of having a larger member-ship
in the order than any other
county in the state.
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Ridenhour
have purchased from Messrs. T. G.
and C. C. McLean the business house
on South Davie street formerly oc-cupied
by the McLean Company. It
is understood that the purchase price
was in the neighborhood of $15,000.
Deputy Collector Hedrlck, who is
connected .with. Revenue Agent Van-derford's
office,' in this city, accom-panied
by Officer Jones, of the
Greensboro police force, and Deputy
Sheriff Jackson, of ReldsvlUe, made
a raid Monday on a blockade still
near Wentworth. The officers de-stroyed
about 200 gallons or still
beer and the worm and fermenters,
but the still proper had been remov-ed,
the blockaders probably taking
It along with them when they left to
elude the officers.
A thief entered the barn on Mr.
W. H. Rees' farm, southwest of the
city, last night and stole a set of
harness, five bridles, a laprobe and
several other articles. The barn was
securely locked and entrance was ef-fected
by breaking through a win-dow.
Mr. Taylor S. Murray and Miss
Mabel Riley, both of this city, were
married Sunday afternoon in High
Point, at the home of the bride's sis-ter,
Mrs. Neese, the ceremony being
performed by Rev. J. H. Earnhardt,
pastor of Washington Street Metho-dist
church.
Squire D. H. Collins, who went to
St. Leo's hospital about two weeks
ago with the expectation of under-going
an operation, is improving
nicely and his physicians say an op-eration
will not be necessary. He
expects to leave the hospital in a
short while.
A meeting of the executive com-mittee
of the board of trustees of the
State Normal and Industrial College
was held here last night. Those in
attendance were: State Superintend-ent
J. V. Joyner, of Raleigh; P. B.
Bailey, of Mocksville, and G. W.
Hlnshaw, of Winston Salem.
Miss Gary Anthony, the efficient
assistant in the office of the county
superintendent of schools, returned
yesterday morning from a two-weeks'
vacation trip. She visited a
cousin In the mountains of New Jer-sey
and spent a few days in New
York, Washington and Ocean View.
Mr. R. G. Vaughn, president of
the American Exchange National
Bank, and Capt. Neil Ellington, pres-ident
of the Greensboro National
Bank, were in Raleigh yesterday in
attendance upon the meeting of
North Carolina bankers called to or-ganize
a branch reserve association.
The funeral of Mr. Monroe Smith,
who died Sunday night at his home
at Revolution, was held Tuesday at
11 o'clock at Center church, the ser-vices
being conducted by Rev. G. F.
Mil low ay. Mr. Smith was 30 years
old and is survived by his widow and
one child, one brother and six sis-ters.
Jesse Means. Ed. Norwood and
Clarence Maiden, three white youths
Wanted in Concord for breaking into
a store and stealing a quantity of
goods, were arrested north of the city
yesterday morning. They were car-ried
back to Concord yesterday af-ternoon
by an officer from that
place.
"The Bank That Does Things" is
the title of a special advertisement
of the Greensboro Loan and Trust
Company appearing on the sixth
page to which we direct the atten-tion
of readers of The Patriot. This
bank also has a new advertisement
in its regular space on the fifth
page.
Mr. Thomas Crutchfield, an aged
and well known citizen of Summer-field,
died at his home at that pace
Tuesday afternoon. The funeral was
held yesterday afternoon from the
Summerfield Methodist church, the
services being conducted by Rev. T.
B. Johnson, the pastor. Mr. Crutch-
The building being erected by the
Messrs. Boren. for the Piedmont
Amusement Company, on the lot ad-
Joining the Fariss-Klutz Drug Com-pany
on the north, is nearing com-pletion
and will be completed in a
few weeks. It will afford accommo-dations
for one of the best moving
picture and vaudeville shows In the
South. The Investment in the lot
and building approximates $50,000.
Jake Hill, a former resident of
Greensboro, who was arrested in
Winston-Salem a few weeks ago on
the charge of the murder of Eugene
Phillips, as the result of a fight at a
house in the Belo's pond section of
the Twin City, was tried In the For-syth
county Superior court a few
days ago and found not guilty. Fred
Hill and Fred Hicks were co-defend-ants
in the case, and they also came
clear.
The work of erecting an annex In
the rear of the Dixie Fire Insurance
Company's building, which includes
the addition of the sixth story to
the entire structure, is proceeding
nicely and will be completed in a
few weeks. When the work is com-pleted,
the Dixie Fire Insurance
Company will possess the largest of-fice
building in the state. ■ The en-tire
sixth floor Is to be occupied by
the home office of the Jefferson
Standard Life insurance Company.
Many readers of The Patriot will
be interested to learn that Mrs. W.
M. Barber, the wife of a former edi-tor
of this paper, will leave her
home In Ashland, Ore., about Sep-tember
1 on a six-weeks' trip to rela-tives
and friends in Colorado, Kan-sas,
Missouri, North Carolina and
Ohio. She expects to spend two weeks
visiting in Greensboro and will go
from here to Columbus, Ohio, to ac-company
her aged mother-in-law,
Mrs. S. J. Barber, to their home in
Oregon.
Nearly all the farmers with whom
The Patriot has talked during the
past week complain of the drought
and say the crops will be short if a
good rain does not come soon. In
some localities there have been
abundant showers, but as a rule the
outlook is not encouraging. One
farmer in The Patriot office yester-day
said a good rain within the next
few days would insure a fairly good
corn crop in his neighborhood, but
If It Is deferred long the yield would
be cut short.
The special train bearing the body
of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wife of the
president of the United States, pass-ed
through Greensboro about 1.30
o'clock Tuesday morning en route to
Rome, Ga., where the burial took
place that afternoon. The bell in
the fire station and the First Pres-byterian
church bell were tolled as
the funeral train passed through the
city. The special train bearing the
funeral party passed through the
city on the return trip to Washington
early yesterday morning.
Mr. R. D. Douglas, postmaster Of '
Greensboro, has been invited to de-liver
an address before the National
Association of Postmasters, in St.
Paul. Minn., next Tuesday on "Pos-field
is survived by a daughter, Mrs. tal Anti-Lottery Laws." and finding
A. C. Stallings, of Oxford.
Mr. John Iff. Wilson has returned
from Baltimore, to which city he
went last week with Mrs. Wilson,
who entered Johns Hopkins hospital
for a course of treatment under spe-cialists.
The physicians who have
Mrs. Wilson's case in charge are
hopeful of her complete recovery, al-thought
It will be necessary for her
to remain in the hospital for some
time.
Nathan Donnell, colored, a witness
in Municipal court Tuesday, refused
to subscribe to the usual oath re-quired
of all witnesses, saying his
church did not permit him to "kiss
the book." Judge *Brown, who is
disposed to be lenient, had a preach-er
of Nathan's denomination called
in as an expert witness, and when
the parson said there was nothing in
the doctrine of his church to prevent
a member from "kissing the book,"
Nathan was given a sentence in jail
of ten days for contempt of court.
Mr. W. M. Shaw, one of The Pa-triot's
good friends in Clay township,
gave us the pleasure of a brief visit
Tuesday. Mr. Shaw reports that the
crop prospects in his neighborhood
are not especially promising. He
says corn has reached the point
where it must have rain if anything
like an average crop is produced.
The tobacco crop will be very short,
owing to the late season and the
drought. About the only thing that
has not suffered is cotton, and Mr.
Shaw says he has never had better
prospects for a fine crop of this sta-ple.
it inconvenient to attend the meet-ing,
he was invited to prepare a pa-per
on the subject to be read before
the association. Mr. Douglas has
consented to do this, and The Pa-triot
ventures to say that no post-master
in the country Is better qual-ified
to treat this subject than the
postmaster of Greensboro.
The European war has made the
bond market a little uncertain and
it is possible that the sale of $100.-
000 of street Improvement bonds re-cently
voted by the people of
Greensboro may be deferred, but
notwithstanding this, the city au-thorities
are going right ahead with
their program of permanent street
improvement. New paving is being
put down on Summit avenue, a por-tion
of Church street. North Davie
street and on East Gaston between
Davie and Elm streets. These streets
are being paved with asphalt-macad-am,
which is said to be one of the
best combinations of paving mate-rials
yet devised. It certainly makes
pretty street, and It looks as If it
should be durable as well as beauti-ful.
Walker Taylor, collector of cus-toms
at Wilmington, has telegraphed
the treasury department that there
are 19 steamer officers in the Wil-mington
customs house district who
are out of employment and who are
available for service to Europe, Asia.
Africa, South America and Australia
In the event they are aeeded ta the
development of the merchant marine
(service.
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LTABLISHED 1821 GREENSBORO, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1914 VOL. 93—NO. 65
iROPEANWARHEWSMEAGER
1*1.1
REPORTS '*. S-MROUOH
T(> BM«» CENSOR8H.- *>.
. ■„. to the rigid censorship that
J* enforced, the reports receiv-the
European war are both
* ITand unsatisfactory. The cable
Germany
news passes through the
Knglish and is censor-
,.. , has been cut and
line10
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tar-'- »< \
,... London.
e
|t'jpp,.;ir> ilia' tlie Hshting around
, last week resulted in what
« of usin ,his country would cal1
"jog ''" Tlie Germans took
but the Belgians held their ;|UVll.
fortifications surrounding the place.
taken n
thai ''"'
i
_h0 German army is reported to
advancing into the heart of Bel-
■ , The forces which have been
averting U«8« have moved to the
',.,, and a new army corps has
ir place. Brussels reports
French and British allied
,. concentrated at various
■Dortani points in Belgium and are
irepared i" check the German ad-rance.
K-om Berlin. German successes are
announced at Muelhausen and La-
Mrde, with the taking of many
French prisoners and the clearing of
German territory of the French.
fighting continues around Tirie-most
and other Belgian towns and
the struggle for the possession of the
1 \fft forts has recommenced.
The British war office information
bureau fays most of the 26 German
army corps have been located and
Hat the mass of the German troops
is concentrated between Liege and
Livmbure.
?:iat no important engagement has
occared between the French and Ger-mans
is indicated by an official an-nouncement
issued- by the French
war department that up to yesterday
afternoon there had been no en-counters
between the respective
forces except those of outposts.
i.ater. however, Paris reported
tin; the bombardment by the Ger-mans
of the important town of Pont-
A-Mousson in the Department of
Jletirthe El Moselle, had commenced. I
This town is -0 miles from Nancyf
a:.: 16 miles south or southwest of
Metz. It was the birthplace of Mar-
?u. ite of Anjou. wife of Henry VI
o: England.
M. important development in the
s:- lation is the preparations the Aus-trian
ambassador is making for his
immediate departure from London.
A London dispatch says war be-twe-
»o Great Britain and Austria will
be Ifdared.
troops along the entire front are in
contact with the Germans. At Man-giennes,
northeast of Verdun, the
Germans attacked the French Mon-day
night. The French, reinforced
" " reserves, then took the offensive
^-ulsed the Germans with con-siQv
a losses. A German battery
was destroyed by the French artil-lery
fire, and another was captured
with three Gatllng guns and ammu-nition.
A regiment of German cavalry
suffered seriously. Near Moncel a
German battalion with artillery was
repulsed. The German losses are said
to. have been heavy.
The village of Lagarde, in German
territory, was taken by the French
withdrawn for use in the war. This
would leave the Italians in complete
control.
If Italy should seise Albania, she
would immediately be drawn into
the European war. The little coun-try
has long been coveted by Servia
and Montenegro. It was established
as a separate entity under the rule
of Prince William of Wied following
the Balkan war.
North Sea Mined.
Mining the North sea as part of
the plan of the European war not
only may close most of the northern
European ports to navigation, but
the gold-laden cruiser Tennessee,
the cruiser North Carolina and neu-tral
passenger vessels bearing Amer-icans
from Europe will be confront-ed
with hew dangers.
The American government has
been advised formally by the British
embassy that, inasmuch as Germany
had been scattering mines indiscrim-inately.
Great Britain no longer
could refrain from planting mines
near her own ports.
Italy May be Drawn Into War.
Italy's entry into the general Eu-ropean
war is momentarily expected.
Special dispatches from Durazzo say
that Italy is casting covetous eyes on
Albania, and her seizure of that new-country
is expected.
The condition in the Albanian cap-ital
is desperate. Native troops are
unpaid and there is no money in the
treasury. Practically the only troops
in Duraxzo are the international de-tachments
from Italy and France
sent there when Albania was pro-claimed
an independent principality
to enforce order. It is expected that
the French troops will shortly be
at the point of the bayonet.
German forces appeared at Long-wy
and demanded the surrender of
the town, which was refused.
Fiance Ends Gelation- With Austria.
Diplomatic relations between
Prance and Austria have been brok-f..
and the ambassadors of the two
countries have left the capitals. The
i- • .:■!. fun-inn office Monday night
i--'.-.'i the following notice announc-
''■■■ the breaking of diplomatic rela-lii
is:
Contrary to assurances given by
Austria to the French minister of
''■•isa. affairs that no Austrian
|is were taking part in the
France-German war. the French
- •rnnuM has ascertained beyond
anj possible doubt that certain Aus-tria
t-oops are present in Germany,
Id' the Austrian frontier. These
»s which have set free certain
"""man troops destined to be em-
• : "d ii: fighting the French, ought
" '■ insldered as acting against
'••■■ In these circumstances the
'■I ambassador was ordered to
Vienna.
v.
Rigid Censorship Maintained.
Advices from London state that a
rigid censorship is being imposed on
all news matter from Brussels.
There is absolutely no direct com-munication
with Germany or Austria
by any routing. A few censored dis-patches
are coming through via Lon-don,
and these are reported censor-ed
for transmission out of England.
Inability to secure wireless commun-ication
with Germany since the cut-ting
of the cable at the outbreak of
the war and increasing vigor of the
London censorship still further ob-scures
what has actually transpired
within the military zone.
On account of the rigid censorship
extending like a network over the
countries involved in the great Eu-ropean
conflict, scarcely any news
has been allowed to filter through as
to what has actually transpired in
the military zone since the last bat-tle
reported to have taken place in
the vicinity of Liege.
FOLLY OF BUYING AUTO-MOBILES
ON SAVINGS.
"We bought two more automobiles
today," remarked an officer of one
of the Greensboro banks in conversa-tion
with a Patriot reporter yester-day.
"Didn't know you had gone into
the automobile business," responded
the newspaper man.
"We haven't gone into the busi-ness
on our own accord," replied the
banker, "but some of our customers
are drawing us into it in an indirect
way. In other words, there are peo-ple
in this town who are withdraw-ing
their savings from the bank to
invest in automobiles—swapping
money that is earning them more
money for a machine of pleasure, a
luxury, that will soon wear out or
be out of date. This investment not
only pays no interest, but in some
instances it results in putting a stop
to the systematic saving of money on
the part of the man who has bought
an automobile.
"Take the case of a man who has
been 'salting down' $15, $20 or $25
or more a month. When he accumu-lates
the purchase price of an auto-mobile,
he withdraws the money and
buys a 'joy wagon.' and in many
cases that is the last we know of htm
as a depositor. He will probably
make his next appearance at the
bank in the capacity of a borrower.
If he be a man on salary or a fixed
Income, the chances are that all the
money he -has been in the habit of
putting in the bank every month, to
draw Interest and multiply, will i be
consumed in keeping up his automo-bile.
"Of course it's all right (or a man
to own an automobile, provided he
can afford it, but it is all wrong with
the poor man with a family to sup-port
to invest In this expensive lux-ury
when it probably will mean de-privation
in the future. Probably he
has children coming on tp be edu-cated
or perhaps he has not paid for
a home—and the purchase of the au-tomobile
may mean that he will con-tinue
to live in a rented or mort-gaged
house and that his children
may go to work instead of going to
college."
The banker' was upaakinr frrrm an
Intimate knowledge of facts and his
observations are worthy of serious
thought on the part of many people
in this community. There can be no
dispute of the proposition that it is
far better to have $1,000 in the bank
drawing interest than to be the pos-sessor
of a luxury that consumes all
one's surplus earnings—and this is
what an automobile will do for the
average poor man.
LOCAL W1SIM BRIEF FORM
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO THE
READKBS OF THE PATRIOT
FAR AND NEAR.
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Ttn
Parii
Austrian ambassador at
lining informed of France's
a-ked for his passports."
'"•rinjui. shot as Spies in Belgium.
'•■ report from Brussels says that
'"> has been covered by a network
1 ernian spies. Six hundred or
n.n,-, ;.lave Deen arrested and 100
"•rs shot in one day.
Some of the Germans captured
■'"'• uniforms of gendarmes, civil
'"*'d< soldiers and officers of the
•k'nian army.
Many were armed with bombs and
j*v„lvers and rode in automobiles
Jfcariou false numbers. They also
'■*•• m their possession telegrams and
""rs with the counterfeit signa-
,ur" of the Belgian minister 6f war. '
•! 'st before and after the fighting
fan private signs were discovered
on bridges, military works and aque-
' u,ts indicating that these structures
'd be blown up.
' ontact Along Entire Front.
'aria, Aug. 12.—The French
Oranges Direct-From California.
Through the courtesy of Mr. V. A.
Reynolds, of Whlttler, Cal., The Pa-triot
this week received some of the
most luscious oranges that grow in
sunny Southern California. Mr. Rey-nolds
shipped a crate of the cele-brated
"Sunklst" oranges from his
grove to his brother-in-law, Dr. A. T.
Mlllis, of Gullford College, and sug-gested
that a few of them be passed
on to The Patriot. Dr. Millie made
the proper division of the fruit and
was kind enough to deliver The Pa-triot's
share at the office. Dr. Mlllis
tells us that Mr. Reynolds has a fine
crop of oranges this year and is re-ceiving
a good price for the fruit.
The Patriot returns thanks to it* Cal-ifornia
friend and subscriber for the
kindly remembrance, and having
tasted of the fruit, is not surprised
that Mr. Reynolds' oranges command
the top-notch price.
Governor Cralg has returned to
Raleigh from a vacation trip of two
weeks.
DIVISION'S OF FEDERAL
COURT IN THIS DISTRICT.
Judge James E. Boyd this week
Issued the following order designat-ing
the several counties that shall
comprise the various divisions of the
United States District court in the
western district of North Carolina:
"To the District Court of the United
States for the Western District of
North Carolina:
"It appearing to the satisfaction
of the court that owing to changes
which have become necessary since
the establishment of this dictict, that
there should be a perfect record
made and entered of the counties
composing the several divisions:
"It is now ordered that the divis-ions
in this district be constituted as
follows:
"The Asheville division shall be
composed of the counties of Bun-combe,
Clay, Cherokee, Graham,
Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Ma-con,
Madison, Swain. Transylvania,
Yancey.
"The Charlotte division shall be
composed of the counties of Anson,
Cabarrus, Cleveland, Gaston, Lin-coln,
Mecklenburg, Polk, Rutherford
and Union.
"The Greensboro division shall be
composed of, the counties of Ala-mance,
Caswell, Forsyth, Gullford,
Montgomery, Orange, Randolph,
Rockingham, Stokes, Surry and Tad-kin.
"The Statesville-Salisbury division
shall be composed of the counties of
Alexander, Avery, Burke, Caldwell,
Catawba, Davie, Davidson, (whlcp, is
hereby transferred from the Greens-boro
division to the Statesville-Salis-bury
division, Iredell, McDowell,
Mitchell, Rowan and Stanley.
"The Wllkesboro division shall be
composed of the counties of Alle-ghany,
Ashe, Watauga and Wllkes."
The German foreign office has no-tified
Ambassador Gerard that all
German ports have been mined.
Mr. O. A. Starbuck, of Richmond,
Va., is in the city. «
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Medearls.are
on a visit to Moore's Springs.
Mrs. Z. Y- Taylor, of Charlotte, is
In the city on a visit to relatives.
Mr. T. B. Ogburn has returned
from a business trip to Chatham, Va.
Rev. R.D. Sherrlll and family
have returned from a visit to rela-tives
in Iredell county.
Mrs. J. If. Longest and children
are spending some time at Mt. Airy
White Sulphur Springs.
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Ridenhour
and children have gone on a vaca-tion
trip to Atlantic City.
Mrs. R. M. Rees and children and
Miss Hattle Causey have gone to At-
Miss Clara Gant, daughter of
Clerk of the Court M. W. Garft; is
visiting friends in Madison.
Iantic City for a few weeks.
Mr. Charles H. McKnight and fam-ily
left yesterday on a trip to Ocean
View and other Virginia resorts. 'i
Mr. John W. Crews, an industrious
and prosperous young farmer of
Summerfletd, was in the city yester-day.
Mr. O. W. Hines, of McLeansville.
Is In Washington attending a con-vention
of rural free delivery mall
carriers.
Mr. J. M. Millikan has sold his
handsome suburban residence in
Glenwood to Mr. W. L. Klvett, of
High Point.
Mr. J. B. Gill, deputy clerk of the
United States District court at States-ville,
was In Greensboro this week on
official business.
Col. W. P. Wood, state auditor,
was In Greensboro Tuesday on his re-turn
to Raleigh from a visit to his
home in Asheboro.
The city building Inspector reports
that nearly 100 new residences are
in course of construction in Greens-boro
at the present time.
Mrs. Josie Bittrlch. of Wilming-ton,
is visiting her her sister, Mrs.
M. L. Minor, on Greensboro Route
4, and other relatives and friends.
Mr. t). W. Patterson has taken a
position with the Patterson Company
as city salesman, succeeding Mr. W.
H. Boyles, who died suddenly last
week.
Mrs. B. L. Beall is recovering very
satisfactorily from the effects of an
operation for appendicitis she un-derwent
at St. Leo's hospital a few-days
ago.
Mr. George T. Lane was In Hills-boro
Tuesday and yesterday attend-ing
the annual session of the North
Carolina Farmers' Alliance, of which
he is an officer.
A revival meeting is in progress
at the Spring Garden Street Friends
church. Three services are held
dally—at 10 o'clock A. M., 2.30 P.
M. and 8 P. M.
Mr. R. L. Vernon, of Charlotte,
for many years a resident of Greens-boro
and a well known former offi-cial
of the Southern Railway, was in
the city Tuesday on a business trip.
Rev. Dr. G. T. Rowe, presiding
elder of the Greensboro district, who
has been ill at his home on Summit
avenue for a month or more, con-tinues
to improve and hopes to be
out soon.
The annual camp-meeting of the
Seventh Day Adventists will open In
this city today and continue through
Sunday, August 23. The meeting
will be held under a tent at the cor-ner
of North Elm street and Besse-mer
avenue.
The annual session of the North
Carolina State Council of the Jr. O.
U. A. M. will convene in Durham
next Tuesday. Gullford has the dis-tinction
of having a larger member-ship
in the order than any other
county in the state.
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Ridenhour
have purchased from Messrs. T. G.
and C. C. McLean the business house
on South Davie street formerly oc-cupied
by the McLean Company. It
is understood that the purchase price
was in the neighborhood of $15,000.
Deputy Collector Hedrlck, who is
connected .with. Revenue Agent Van-derford's
office,' in this city, accom-panied
by Officer Jones, of the
Greensboro police force, and Deputy
Sheriff Jackson, of ReldsvlUe, made
a raid Monday on a blockade still
near Wentworth. The officers de-stroyed
about 200 gallons or still
beer and the worm and fermenters,
but the still proper had been remov-ed,
the blockaders probably taking
It along with them when they left to
elude the officers.
A thief entered the barn on Mr.
W. H. Rees' farm, southwest of the
city, last night and stole a set of
harness, five bridles, a laprobe and
several other articles. The barn was
securely locked and entrance was ef-fected
by breaking through a win-dow.
Mr. Taylor S. Murray and Miss
Mabel Riley, both of this city, were
married Sunday afternoon in High
Point, at the home of the bride's sis-ter,
Mrs. Neese, the ceremony being
performed by Rev. J. H. Earnhardt,
pastor of Washington Street Metho-dist
church.
Squire D. H. Collins, who went to
St. Leo's hospital about two weeks
ago with the expectation of under-going
an operation, is improving
nicely and his physicians say an op-eration
will not be necessary. He
expects to leave the hospital in a
short while.
A meeting of the executive com-mittee
of the board of trustees of the
State Normal and Industrial College
was held here last night. Those in
attendance were: State Superintend-ent
J. V. Joyner, of Raleigh; P. B.
Bailey, of Mocksville, and G. W.
Hlnshaw, of Winston Salem.
Miss Gary Anthony, the efficient
assistant in the office of the county
superintendent of schools, returned
yesterday morning from a two-weeks'
vacation trip. She visited a
cousin In the mountains of New Jer-sey
and spent a few days in New
York, Washington and Ocean View.
Mr. R. G. Vaughn, president of
the American Exchange National
Bank, and Capt. Neil Ellington, pres-ident
of the Greensboro National
Bank, were in Raleigh yesterday in
attendance upon the meeting of
North Carolina bankers called to or-ganize
a branch reserve association.
The funeral of Mr. Monroe Smith,
who died Sunday night at his home
at Revolution, was held Tuesday at
11 o'clock at Center church, the ser-vices
being conducted by Rev. G. F.
Mil low ay. Mr. Smith was 30 years
old and is survived by his widow and
one child, one brother and six sis-ters.
Jesse Means. Ed. Norwood and
Clarence Maiden, three white youths
Wanted in Concord for breaking into
a store and stealing a quantity of
goods, were arrested north of the city
yesterday morning. They were car-ried
back to Concord yesterday af-ternoon
by an officer from that
place.
"The Bank That Does Things" is
the title of a special advertisement
of the Greensboro Loan and Trust
Company appearing on the sixth
page to which we direct the atten-tion
of readers of The Patriot. This
bank also has a new advertisement
in its regular space on the fifth
page.
Mr. Thomas Crutchfield, an aged
and well known citizen of Summer-field,
died at his home at that pace
Tuesday afternoon. The funeral was
held yesterday afternoon from the
Summerfield Methodist church, the
services being conducted by Rev. T.
B. Johnson, the pastor. Mr. Crutch-
The building being erected by the
Messrs. Boren. for the Piedmont
Amusement Company, on the lot ad-
Joining the Fariss-Klutz Drug Com-pany
on the north, is nearing com-pletion
and will be completed in a
few weeks. It will afford accommo-dations
for one of the best moving
picture and vaudeville shows In the
South. The Investment in the lot
and building approximates $50,000.
Jake Hill, a former resident of
Greensboro, who was arrested in
Winston-Salem a few weeks ago on
the charge of the murder of Eugene
Phillips, as the result of a fight at a
house in the Belo's pond section of
the Twin City, was tried In the For-syth
county Superior court a few
days ago and found not guilty. Fred
Hill and Fred Hicks were co-defend-ants
in the case, and they also came
clear.
The work of erecting an annex In
the rear of the Dixie Fire Insurance
Company's building, which includes
the addition of the sixth story to
the entire structure, is proceeding
nicely and will be completed in a
few weeks. When the work is com-pleted,
the Dixie Fire Insurance
Company will possess the largest of-fice
building in the state. ■ The en-tire
sixth floor Is to be occupied by
the home office of the Jefferson
Standard Life insurance Company.
Many readers of The Patriot will
be interested to learn that Mrs. W.
M. Barber, the wife of a former edi-tor
of this paper, will leave her
home In Ashland, Ore., about Sep-tember
1 on a six-weeks' trip to rela-tives
and friends in Colorado, Kan-sas,
Missouri, North Carolina and
Ohio. She expects to spend two weeks
visiting in Greensboro and will go
from here to Columbus, Ohio, to ac-company
her aged mother-in-law,
Mrs. S. J. Barber, to their home in
Oregon.
Nearly all the farmers with whom
The Patriot has talked during the
past week complain of the drought
and say the crops will be short if a
good rain does not come soon. In
some localities there have been
abundant showers, but as a rule the
outlook is not encouraging. One
farmer in The Patriot office yester-day
said a good rain within the next
few days would insure a fairly good
corn crop in his neighborhood, but
If It Is deferred long the yield would
be cut short.
The special train bearing the body
of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wife of the
president of the United States, pass-ed
through Greensboro about 1.30
o'clock Tuesday morning en route to
Rome, Ga., where the burial took
place that afternoon. The bell in
the fire station and the First Pres-byterian
church bell were tolled as
the funeral train passed through the
city. The special train bearing the
funeral party passed through the
city on the return trip to Washington
early yesterday morning.
Mr. R. D. Douglas, postmaster Of '
Greensboro, has been invited to de-liver
an address before the National
Association of Postmasters, in St.
Paul. Minn., next Tuesday on "Pos-field
is survived by a daughter, Mrs. tal Anti-Lottery Laws." and finding
A. C. Stallings, of Oxford.
Mr. John Iff. Wilson has returned
from Baltimore, to which city he
went last week with Mrs. Wilson,
who entered Johns Hopkins hospital
for a course of treatment under spe-cialists.
The physicians who have
Mrs. Wilson's case in charge are
hopeful of her complete recovery, al-thought
It will be necessary for her
to remain in the hospital for some
time.
Nathan Donnell, colored, a witness
in Municipal court Tuesday, refused
to subscribe to the usual oath re-quired
of all witnesses, saying his
church did not permit him to "kiss
the book." Judge *Brown, who is
disposed to be lenient, had a preach-er
of Nathan's denomination called
in as an expert witness, and when
the parson said there was nothing in
the doctrine of his church to prevent
a member from "kissing the book,"
Nathan was given a sentence in jail
of ten days for contempt of court.
Mr. W. M. Shaw, one of The Pa-triot's
good friends in Clay township,
gave us the pleasure of a brief visit
Tuesday. Mr. Shaw reports that the
crop prospects in his neighborhood
are not especially promising. He
says corn has reached the point
where it must have rain if anything
like an average crop is produced.
The tobacco crop will be very short,
owing to the late season and the
drought. About the only thing that
has not suffered is cotton, and Mr.
Shaw says he has never had better
prospects for a fine crop of this sta-ple.
it inconvenient to attend the meet-ing,
he was invited to prepare a pa-per
on the subject to be read before
the association. Mr. Douglas has
consented to do this, and The Pa-triot
ventures to say that no post-master
in the country Is better qual-ified
to treat this subject than the
postmaster of Greensboro.
The European war has made the
bond market a little uncertain and
it is possible that the sale of $100.-
000 of street Improvement bonds re-cently
voted by the people of
Greensboro may be deferred, but
notwithstanding this, the city au-thorities
are going right ahead with
their program of permanent street
improvement. New paving is being
put down on Summit avenue, a por-tion
of Church street. North Davie
street and on East Gaston between
Davie and Elm streets. These streets
are being paved with asphalt-macad-am,
which is said to be one of the
best combinations of paving mate-rials
yet devised. It certainly makes
pretty street, and It looks as If it
should be durable as well as beauti-ful.
Walker Taylor, collector of cus-toms
at Wilmington, has telegraphed
the treasury department that there
are 19 steamer officers in the Wil-mington
customs house district who
are out of employment and who are
available for service to Europe, Asia.
Africa, South America and Australia
In the event they are aeeded ta the
development of the merchant marine
(service.
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